[Mageia-sysadm] [forums-discuss] Re: updating sysadmin privileges in forum config

Mon Mar 26 19:21:26 CEST 2012

2012/3/26 Marja van Waes <marja11 at xs4all.nl>:
+>>
+> Wel, it helps if people file a bug report when they suffer from those
+> "normal" bugs. We don't vote for bugs in our bugzilla, but the more users
+> report a bug, the more chance it gets fixed.
+>
+> But even then nothing is guaranteed, because the people who fix bugs , push
+> upgrades, etc. here are human beings, with limited time, capabilities, and
+> so on, even security fixes sometimes don't get done fast, in spite of
+> everyone doing his best.
+>
+> We have a bug report (#40) about an upgrade that would fix several bugs,
+> including several security fixes, some of the last were already mentioned in
+> the report in august last year by the upstream maintainer.
+>
+> Having the report there helps as a reminder and I'm sure upgrading will be
+> done, but the report also shows that it is good to have limited expectations
+> about how fast we are.
+
+As explained several times, you can't mix bug fixing for mageia
+packages with bug fixing of phpBB. First we do not have a phpBB3
+package. Second:  updating the couple of hundred files with all
+100+something bugs would be some work. Third: if we would have a
+package, still it needs to be unpacked and all the bug fixes must be
+checked and integrated into the single files and then packed. This way
+or that, all this only in case we still trust the "zip from some
+website" (as Michael put it). If we don't we would have to find our
+bug fixes on our own, in other words: that one or two php-savvy people
+(if we find so many for the forum software) would have to do what a
+large team at phpBB does. Or look how Debian does it (do they trust
+phpbb?).
+
+But this is something else and there are people who know much better than I.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+